The male fight-flight response: A result of SRY regulation of catecholamines?

BioEssays

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 454-457

  Lee, Joohyung ^a   Harley, Vincent R ^a,b  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Sex chromosome; Sex dimorphism; Substantia nigra; Sympathetic; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

AMINE OXIDASE (FLAVIN CONTAINING) ISOENZYME A; CATECHOLAMINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ADRENAL GLAND; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTISM; BRAIN TISSUE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY; LUNG; MALE; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SRY GENE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS COMPACTA; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; DOWN-REGULATION; GENES, SRY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84862782998     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201100159     Document Type: Article

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